Danielle Lux

It goes without saying that you need to be bold to work in television, but CPL Managing Director Danielle Lux took that advice to the extreme when she carried out a management buyout of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Producers Celador, all while pregnant with her daughter Talia. Lux studied French and Italian at Oxford before embarking on her television career, where her first job was as a reporter on BBC youth shows. She was promoted to producer just a year later by then-boos Janet Street-Porter. After a brief flirtation with current affairs working on Dispatches (I was trying to be something that I wasn’t), in 1993 she was appointed Head of Young People’s Entertainment and Children’s at Granada and LWT, before moving to the BBC as Controller of Entertainment Commissioning, and then Channel 4 as Head of Entertainment. In 2003, Lux was hired by Celador, where as Joint Managing Director, she was tasked with finding the company’s next big hit. She did, in the form of You Are What You Eat, a programme that brought controversial nutritionist Gillian McKeith and colonic irrigations to national attention. Lux was pregnant with her second child when she was offered the opportunity of …

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